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Weight averaging has become a standard technique for enhancing model performance. However, methods such as Stochastic Weight Averaging (SWA) and Latest Weight Averaging (LAWA) often require manually designed procedures to sample from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Peng Wang , Shengchao Hu , Zerui Tao , Guoxia Wang , Dianhai Yu , Li Shen , Quan Zheng , Dacheng Tao

Domain generalization (DG), aiming to make models work on unseen domains, is a surefire way toward general artificial intelligence. Limited by the scale and diversity of current DG datasets, it is difficult for existing methods to scale to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Hongjing Niu , Hanting Li , Feng Zhao , Bin Li

With the goal of directly generalizing trained model to unseen target domains, domain generalization (DG), a newly proposed learning paradigm, has attracted considerable attention. Previous DG models usually require a sufficient quantity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Ruiqi Wang , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is perhaps the most prevalent optimization method in modern machine learning. Contrary to the empirical practice of sampling from the datasets without replacement and with (possible) reshuffling at each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Xufeng Cai , Cheuk Yin Lin , Jelena Diakonikolas

Stochastic Gradient Descent-Ascent (SGDA) is one of the most prominent algorithms for solving min-max optimization and variational inequalities problems (VIP) appearing in various machine learning tasks. The success of the method led to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Eduard Gorbunov , Hugo Berard , Nicolas Loizou

Improving the generalization ability of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) is a fundamental challenge in machine learning. Two branches of methods have been proposed to seek flat minima and improve generalization: one led by sharpness-aware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Tao Li , Qinghua Tao , Weihao Yan , Zehao Lei , Yingwen Wu , Kun Fang , Mingzhen He , Xiaolin Huang

In this work, we propose to tackle the problem of domain generalization in the context of \textit{insufficient samples}. Instead of extracting latent feature embeddings based on deterministic models, we propose to learn a domain-invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Kecheng Chen , Elena Gal , Hong Yan , Haoliang Li

The generalization ability of deep learning has been extensively studied in supervised settings, yet it remains less explored in unsupervised scenarios. Recently, the Unsupervised Domain Generalization (UDG) task has been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tan Pan , Kaiyu Guo , Dongli Xu , Zhaorui Tan , Chen Jiang , Deshu Chen , Xin Guo , Brian C. Lovell , Limei Han , Yuan Cheng , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) exhibits strong algorithmic regularization effects in practice, which has been hypothesized to play an important role in the generalization of modern machine learning approaches. In this work, we seek to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Difan Zou , Jingfeng Wu , Vladimir Braverman , Quanquan Gu , Dean P. Foster , Sham M. Kakade

Domain generalization (DG) aims to improve the generalization ability of the model trained on several known training domains over unseen test domains. Previous work has shown that self-supervised contrastive pre-training improves the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Chujie Zhao , Tianren Zhang , Feng Chen

The goal of domain generalization is to learn from multiple source domains to generalize to unseen target domains under distribution discrepancy. Current state-of-the-art methods in this area are fully supervised, but for many real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Hossein Sharifi-Noghabi , Hossein Asghari , Nazanin Mehrasa , Martin Ester

Domain shifts are critical issues that harm the performance of machine learning. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) mitigates this issue but suffers when the domain shifts are steep and drastic. Gradual Domain Adaptation (GDA) alleviates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zixi Wang , Xiangxu Zhao , Tonglan Xie , Mengmeng Jing , Lin Zuo

Unsupervised Graph Domain Adaptation (UGDA) seeks to bridge distribution shifts between domains by transferring knowledge from labeled source graphs to given unlabeled target graphs. Existing UGDA methods primarily focus on aligning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Wei Chen , Guo Ye , Yakun Wang , Zhao Zhang , Libang Zhang , Daixin Wang , Zhiqiang Zhang , Fuzhen Zhuang

The objective of domain generalization (DG) is to enable models to be robust against domain shift. DG is crucial for deploying vision-language models (VLMs) in real-world applications, yet most existing methods rely on domain labels that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zhixing Li , Arsham Gholamzadeh Khoee , Yinan Yu

Stochastic descent methods (of the gradient and mirror varieties) have become increasingly popular in optimization. In fact, it is now widely recognized that the success of deep learning is not only due to the special deep architecture of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Navid Azizan , Babak Hassibi

Adaptive optimizers such as Adam (Kingma & Ba, 2015) have been central to the success of large language models. However, they often require to maintain optimizer states throughout training, which can result in memory requirements several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Chao Ma , Wenbo Gong , Meyer Scetbon , Edward Meeds

Standard supervised learning setting assumes that training data and test data come from the same distribution (domain). Domain generalization (DG) methods try to learn a model that when trained on data from multiple domains, would…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Udit Maniyar , Joseph K J , Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Urun Dogan , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

This paper investigates the problems large-scale distributed composite convex optimization, with motivations from a broad range of applications, including multi-agent systems, federated learning, smart grids, wireless sensor networks,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Maoran Wang , Xingju Cai , Yongxin Chen

Domain Generalization (DG) techniques have emerged as a popular approach to address the challenges of domain shift in Deep Learning (DL), with the goal of generalizing well to the target domain unseen during the training. In recent years,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Aveen Dayal , Vimal K. B. , Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi , C. Krishna Mohan , Abhinav Kumar , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

The generalization performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) is a critical factor in achieving robust model behavior on unseen data. Recent studies have highlighted the importance of sharpness-based measures in promoting generalization by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Mohamed Hassan , Aleksandar Vakanski , Boyu Zhang , Min Xian